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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| conductors | Aluminum,sliver,platnium,iron,gold,and mercury are all in common ? |
| insulators | paper ,plastic, cloth, rubber, wood, Styrofoam, cardboard, glass, and porcelain are all common what? |
| dissolve | to become so small you can no longer see it |
| Switch | turns a circuit on and off |
| series | an electric current in which electrons have only one path to take if one light goes out or is removed , they all go out |
| parallel | a circuit where the electrons have many paths to take. if one light is removed the other lights will still work and will even get brighter |
| prism | a glass or transparent object that bends light that separates while light into a spectrum of colors |
| reflection | the bouncing back of light waves off a surface |
| refraction | the bending of light waves as they move through one medium into another |
| generator | a device that uses magnets to change mechanical energy into electricity |